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THE. DEVIL, HAS RESIGNED
Louis Syberkrop, of Craston, In, has ac- ¿quired much fumo in recent weeks as author
of a retire on Kaiser Wilhelm. Requests have evne to him from Tomalty, Secretary Daniols and Roosevelt, and people in every state of the Union and in Canada have asked | for copies of Mr. Syberkrop's article. Ie
The Infernul Region,
June 28th, 1917.
My Dear Wilhelan:
SPITSBERGEN
A PROBLEM IN OWNERSHIP.
recent message, the British flag now flies) Spitsbergen (over which, according to a was discovered more than twelve centuries hility that it had been known long before hgo by the Dutch, though there is a prob- to the Vikings.
wegian owners, who were greedy for coal hearing land.
BRITISH IN · SOYLA WELCOMÈD BY THE BULGARIANS.
[FROM O., WARD: PRIOR)
Horia, Colober 11th, British aeropland to band bere sinto sho I arrived bore this morning by the Brat! capitulation, start having been delay-
by bad weather
A throng of English whaters were the first to make browo-clad Boar mechanics, with use of it, and were soon followed by dozen of theiring officers, watched the Dutch It was one of these whalers from Lansing of the fares British seroplaner Hull who discovered the coalfields. Later with curiosity, while two or three Ger- it was abandoned by the whalers, and man, who trust be the last of those who! To Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, King became the resort of Russian and then used to strat about this ground the lords of Prussia, Emperor of all Germany Norwegian fur trappers. For over a cen- of all they surveyed, walked disdainfeliv and Envoy Extraordinary of Altatry it has been the resort of exploring away mighty God:
expedition-British, Swediab, Norwegian. and Russian-in, the course of which it assured way in which most foreigners are Introductions are made casier by the aineral values were gradually revealed taught to announce their own style and "I can call you by that familiar narse mining was began. The pioneers were straint which aw
But it was not until 1903 that serious title, and thers follows a moment of con Eagle pilot characteri for I have always been very close to you, British company, who opened a coal mine cally, briewed by
A tette. The nuels closer than you could ever know,
and built the Srst mining village in Spits: Balgars, if anything, the more at bergen. They were quickly followed by: "From the time that you were yet another British, and by Norwegian, Amerise than the representatives of their con- undeveloped being in your mother's womb can, and later by Swedish and Busais querors, and in a few moments we were companies. Oradually all the valuable in thefr me talking freely in French i have shaped your destiny for my own sites on the more accessible west coast were while waiting for the car that was to purpose.
claimed, and a few estates marked out on take us to the American Legation.
"We are glad, the war is over, and we the east coast. The Americage developed realise that we have been fighting nginst. in the days of Rome I created
their coal mines with characteristic
jour true friends and our own interests." rough-neck known in history Nera: 'he Fenergy, and introduced the best of the That is the substance of the Bulgarian various Spitsbergen coals to the Nor-
We are ready to receive was a vulgar character and suited my wegian market. Soon after the outbreak officers' views. purpose at that particular time. In in friendship British, Frendi, Americans." For the Germahs modern days a classic demon and efficient
ther professed disgust and ill-feeling. Especially lately the Germans have aupir criminal was needed, and as I know
At present there are two British com-treated us abominably. the Hohenzollern blood I picked you as panics in Spitsbergen--the Northern The people in the streets looked at the my special instrument to place on earth Exploration Company with estates of English uniform with apparent indiffer an annex of hell. I gave you abnormal nearly 2,000 square miles; and the Scottish fence, but officers who reached here by car [sambition, likewise
Syndicate, who own about tell me that in the villages on the way the Spitsbergen an over-supply of
1,700 square miles. Thest companies, peasanta were anxious to shake hands egotism that you might not discover your between them, hold some of the best har when they heard that the strangers were own failings, twisted sour mind to bours in the country. Norwegian owners British, and showed a distinctly hostile that of madman with certain normal tendencies to carry you by.
have about 1,000 square miles, and attitude when they were addressed in most Swedish 400 square miles, Britain's shareGerman. dangerous character placed in power
in Spitsbergen is greater than that of all I have just seen the first four British gave you the power or a
other nations combined, and represents officer prisoners-of-war who have reached certain magnetic for hypopist and a
you might about one-seventh of the total area of the Sofia. They say that their treatment at sway your people. I AR responsible for country. It includes extensive coalfields, Philippopolis internment camp was not the deformed arm that hanga helpicss on great deposits of iron ore, beds of pure bad, as they were left almost entirely to your left, for your crippled condition gypsum, and a great deal of good marble,themselves. Three of these four tried, embitters your life and destroys all noble The Scottish company holds also valuable however, to escape, and after reaching the impulses at might otherwise cause British clains was curtailed, by the war, captured, after which the attitude of the the oil-bearing rocke The development of seashore opposite Thasos Island were re- anxiety, but your strong sword arm is driven by your ambition that squelcher but is now being resumed on a large scale. Bulgar authorities was harsh towards
sentiment and pity; I placed in your On the other hand, Scandinavians have them. Buat a deep hatred for all things Eng-ever been more active on their estatea than during the last three or four years. lish, for of all nations on earth I hate Not only have they sent much coal to England most; wherever England plants Norway and Sweden, but they have con- her flag she brings order out of chaossiderably extended their claims, not and the hated Cross follows the Union always with due respect to the rights of Jack; under her rule wild tribes become others. tillers of the soil and in due time prae-: tical citizens; she is the great civiliser of the globe and I hate ber I planted in your soul a cruel hatred for your mother because she was English and left my good friend Bismarck to fan the flame I had kindled. Recent history proves how well our work was done. It broke your royal mother's heart, but I gained my purpose. The inherited disease of the Hoher zollerns killed your father, just as it will kill you, and you breame the ruler of Germany and a tool of mine sooner than I Expected.
in
Their physical condition looks poor, though not serious in any way.
have already had talks with several Bulgariane, though none of official stand ing. They realise that they have no right to look for much, but two or three have told me that they consider the qucation of the Dobrudja as the most serious one
or was
BE
In July, 1904, an international confer-affecting them. One thing is certain, and ence was sitting in Christianin. trying to that is that the Bulgar envy and fierce devise some form of eontrol in Spitsbergen bofore the war under the Serbian or Greek
ambition for territory that is without permitting its annexation by any Government is not dead, though it may be one Power. This problem was not made scotched. It must not be imagined that easy by the mutual jealousy which Norway the Bulgare, because they confessed them. and Sweden showed, but became insoluble selves beaten, have changed their political by the obstructive attitude of Germany. At the outbreak of war the conference skin. Our armies have done great things, broke up without reaching a decision, and indeed, in the Balkans; it remains to be seen if our diplomacy will come equally Spitsbergen remaine a terra nullus. As well through the tremendous task that early as 1614 Britain annexed it, but the lies ahead of it in finding a settlement for plain was allowed to fall into abeyance. these age-old questions. When mining started. British companies worked under difficulties, and only tardily To assist you and farther hasten myand by dint of perseverance wrung from work I sent you three evil spirita, the Foreign Office a promise that British Nietzshe, Treitschke and later Bern-
claims would be protected. Twenty years hardi, whose teachings inflamed the ago Britain might have reasserted her youths of Germany, who in good time claim to Spitsbergen and would have met would be willing and loyal subjects and with little opposition. Now the case is eager to epill their blood and pull our Norway and Sweden. Besides her mines, niore complex because of the intercats of chestnuts, yours and wine; the spell and Norway owns a high-power wireless sta been perfect you cast your antitious eyes toward the Mediterranean, Egypt, tion and post-office, and speaks of build India and the Dardanelles and you began ing a church in Spitsbergen. your great railway to Bagdad, but the ambitious nechduke and his more ambit iuus wife stood in your way. It was then that I sowed the seed in your heart that blossomed into the assassination of the Duke and his wife, and all hell smiled when
it saw how cleverly you saddled the crime on Serbia. I saw you set sails for the fjords of Norway and I knew
ROW IT FEELS TO
WOUNDED.
SCOTTISH SOLDIER'S EXPERI ENCE.
of wat to ask people to read an article It may seem strange after four years on being wounded, writes Jascon in a home paper, but there has been so much
hearts wounded, that it really seeme need- unnecessary anguish suffered by those who have fathers, sons, brothers, or sweet- ful and kind to do so.
Sympathy is certainly sweet to the
settlement of the sovereignty of Spitsber Among the peace problems will be the gen. At present it lies between Britain, Norway, and Sweden. Russia's interests are small and unimportant. To Britain the importance of the coal, iron and oil wounded man-if it isn't overdone, for are obvious. These could
we all like a little potting—but to be quite even if the island was in Scandinavian honest, he often feels he is getting more hands, but it must not be forgotten that than his due, because he knows it springe Spitsbergen in the hands of a small Power largely from mistaken notions of what he
has suffered.
I do Spitsbergen, with its great harbours open suffering er danger caused through being not mean to belittle the potential most of the year. its coal and oil, and its wounded, but to make clear-for the sake move old King Frederick of Denmark. proximity to our shores, would be a dan- and later robbed that country of two gerous base if in the possession of a hostile of those at home--that most wounds are
not felt at all when received. provinces that gave Germany an oppor power. Germany saw its value even if our
The mind, at the moment, is usually naval power. Murder Government used to be blind. In 1810 concerned with other things, and what a tunity to become
Prince Henry of Prussia and Count
you would prove an alibi. How end ght fall an easy prey to a strong one,
done, se much like your noblo, father, who also secured an assassin to re-
ie dirty work, but it takes a Hohenzolleta Zeppelin were experimenting with dirigi.man is not thinking about he does not
to make away and get by.
bles at Cross Bay. Since that date there feel. Even with bad wounds the pain Your opportunity was at hand; you set the world on fire and bells of hell as a German observatory and wireless often worries the patient less than the in
station in Ebeltoft Haven until the staff convenience of his injuries. So that much were ringing your rape on Belgium dismantled it and hurried home in Sep. of the horror of being wounded is purely caused much joy, it was the beginning, tember, 1914. Germany, too late to find irunginary, and anyone who has been the function of noble cathedrals and 1913 trying to buy land and to discover much about pain as many a wounded man, of a perfect hell on earth, unclaimed contfields, was busy in 1912 and under the hands of the dentist knows as other infinite works of art were hailed oil. In all her attempts she failed, and with joy in the infernal regions. You now her one claim in the country has been made war friends
Un
and fue alike and annexed by a British company. the murder of civilians slowed my Lench
the
Treachery
A
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uni
mnstor
ings had borne fruit. Your toward neutral nationa bastened versal upheaval, the thing I
introduced a code of your own. I must desired.
You Your under-ea warfare is
have killed and robbed the people of stroke, from the smallest manierej posto friendly nations and destroyed their pro- the great
Lusitania you show no favo Perty. You are a liar, a bypocrite and rites: a War Lord you stand supreme,
eme bluffer of the highest magnitude. You for you have no morey; you have no con- are a partner of mine and yet you pose as sideration for the baby clinging to its a personal friend of God. Ah, Wilhelm, mother's breasts as they both go down you are a wonder. You wantonly destroy into the deep together, only to be torn
all things i in your path and leave nothing apart and leisurely devot
devoured by hacks for
Doming
Warations.
down
when
I
aw you form
In speaking to numbers of then wounded under various conditions, I have found that not one even knew he was wounded, when the accompanying, citcumstances were in some degree exciting, until he found that the injured member was not responding to the dictates of his will.
In my own case-which was typical of most casualties from shell-fire-the cir- cumstances were not at all exciting, yet had to examine myself before I know where I had been hit.
I sat snugly in a tiny observation post, the bench beside me, and as I turned to drawing a panorama. My lunch was on the left to open it an enormous bell seemed to clang, and everything disappeared in This yellow blindness may have lasted minutes, but I think it was only seconds. your hand of destruction overywhere church. I confess, Wilhelm, you are a least, must be all right because I could worshipper in the Lutheran remember thinking that my head, at your work, saporfend that I made
among the corals.
I have strolled over the battlefields a partnership with the impossible Turk, son of primrose yellow.
of Belgium and France. I have seen the chronic killer of Christians, and you
it's all
you.
AOW
they
devout
It was only in stooping to pick up my
I have seen the Belds of Poland puzzle at times. A Mohammedan army, think. Then as my sight gradually came wilderness fit for prowling beasts commanded German officers, sesist back I realised that the bursting shell
by only; no merry children in Poland now:ing one another, in massacring Christ- badn't even knocked me off the bench, all succumbed to frost and star iana is a new line of warfare. When a although the iron roof of the dug-out was vation--I drifted down into Galiela Prumian officer can witness a nude blown off. where formerly Jewa and Gentiles Itved woman being disemboweled by a SWAERTY Lattered papers that I realised by right happily together; I found but ruins
double Turk, committing a and nabos: I felt a carions pride in my pupil, one cat of his saber, and calmly stand arm hung helpless. Blood also ran down for it was all above my expectation. I by and see a house full of
of innocent Ar-my face and neck, so, being alone, was in Belgium when you drove the maninng locked up the house saturated thought it wise to let things lie maan- ponceful population before you lika inan
unttle into slavery; you separated
and
in
the with oil and fred,
RO
murder with
my
teachings
tim, and make for the nearest help, to, been find out the extent of my injuries.
CX-
stop with you, but hevo ife and forced them to hard labor tended to the whole German nation. It racious dressing stations little pieces.
contess my Satanic Boul sick
grew
rape committed on young women and
Bart
trquches. I have seen the most fendish there and than I knew the uber i krom my arm in hospital. One piece was
those who were forced into maternity beenme the meater. I am a back were cursing the father of their offanting and my dear Wilhels, I abdicate and I began to doubt it my own inforno favour. The great key of hell will be was really up to date.
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of shell were extracted from my face, neck, had and scalp, and later several larger piec felt in my shoulder souvenir perforee,
broken claviels, a deaf car, and eight desh wounds were the extent of my nately to result in my discharge from the packet which, though sufficient ulti demy, yet gave me less pain from Ari Instan, I can remember enduring from toothach, in my schooldays, and
do, sympatistic, render, stins not your kindness to wounded me; bus keep your
'BOGE· AUENTS own mind easier with regard to what they 1 MITSU BUSSAN KAISHA. Buffor.
You have taken millions of dollars struck the doom of damned souls sine from innocent victims and called it intime began is yours. I am entiefed with demaity; you have lived fat on the land what I have done; that my abdication you usurped and sent the real owners in your favor is for the very best in Away to starvation. You have strayed teria of hell-in the future I am ne away from all logalised war methods and your Majesty's service. Affectionately
"knd interely, (Vontinued at foot of next column.)
"Luo H. SATAN.”